Is training completely useless if my iron is low or should I still run? Even though I have lower blood cells in my body I don't think that should prevent my heart to get stronger, capillaries to form and other benefits right?
Is training completely useless if my iron is low or should I still run? Even though I have lower blood cells in my body I don't think that should prevent my heart to get stronger, capillaries to form and other benefits right?
I have the same question, having just returned from the doctor where I got my iron results. I have low ferritin (10) but normal hemoglobin (13.9) so while not technically anemic, I've been feeling like crap during workouts. I see conflicting info when I try to search answers for your question, though. Some people have written that you should actually take a couple of weeks off when you're trying to aggressively rebuild your iron stores -- is that just when you're full-on anemic? What if just your ferritin is low?
Stupid question but why don’t you just start eating more red meat to solve said issue?
Because the issue doesn't resolve itself that quickly. I'm asking whether I can still make gains all the while increasing my iron over time
Although not diagnosed because I was too lazy to see a doctor, I believe I had low iron in the spring of 2016. I started taking iron supplements and for one reason or another the symptoms (general fatigue, never feeling good while running) went away.
Soon after I ran some pretty good workouts and races, so I think that I still gained fitness during that period (maybe a month or so, or more).
CantSTopWontStop wrote:
Is training completely useless if my iron is low or should I still run?
Why would you let yourself get even further out of shape?
You can still run but it will be harder to make fitness/speed gains while iron deficient. My ferretin was 8 recently with hemoglobin normal but felt terrible! Trying to run faster or longer was like a chore. I don’t think I could have gotten faster if I tried. Recently got iron infusions (can’t do the pills) and feel a world of difference. So you don’t have to stop running but you will notice greater gains once your levels improve.
What are ‘running gains’?
You can still make gains while deficient, however you can't do really hard workouts. You can replace regular workouts with tempo workouts, nothing in the sense of interval or speed work.
Broooo I lift heavily all day everyday and I have a blood defeciency. I only get gains and I bench 327 and I run a 1:56 800m so I say stop making excuses and just do it.
Actually I think it makes more sense to do short intervals, long rest workouts since iron deficiency hampers your aerobic capacity so threshold work would suffer tremendously. So maybe the OP should take the time to work on his/her anaerobic system
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